Day 53 - 759 words - Prompt: skyline

the Amighty didn't just speak to adam, She *walked* with him. The creater of everything openly conversed and chatted and strolled with the humans. Sometimes as a pair, but often just with Adam. Like.. Like..

Like he was an equal of some kind! Like he was something more than a funny little fleshy bipedal, with no worries and no resposibilities, and no ability to think for himself! like he was a lord of his own in some right, rather than a lowley little afterthought created at the very end in this tiny little corner of the univese.

crawy counld help but seeth and rage, lucky that this serpant for of his lacked the ability to emote farther, less he make a fool of himself with ... emothens. lucifer had always had such an elegant way of turning minds to his way of thinking, which is how crawly had gotten into this mess in the first place, but after the fall, and hell, and the empty nothing he'd raversed to get to here, hed started to question if maybe the devil had been wrong, or smpley had blown things out of prepoertion. had made these humans out to be a bigger deal than they really were. and in the time leading up to the visit today, crawly had rather grown fond of the silly little simpletons.

surely lucifer ahd been mistaken in his beliefs they where ment to kneel before the humans. they humans woun't have the foggiest what that ment. in truth, crawly hadn't really understood it either until lucifer had painted quite a picture for htem. but.. not these little things. theyere where too .. soft and (simple) and ... innocent. for any of tht nonesence.

but the, here was God, treasuting them. showing them affectiona nd giveing them the attention She'd never shown her angels. the Tones, who where once at her side in all things, where more psocophants than advisors. she'd never once, as far as crawly had ever heard, soaught an angel out for their opion. never once hasked about their days or their duties. no. she Named you, and Tasked you, and that was that. the end.

He tried really hard not to take his bitterness out on the pair. they certainy had no clue. and while Adam treated him like jsut another one of the dumb animals, Eve seemed to understand he was more, and she'd been kind and nurtuios to him since the begining. No. this was God, not the humans. Lucifer was wrong in wanting them destoyed, and crawly would have no part in that.

But.. but then Eve said something odd about one of the trees; crawly had chossen one of the brighter trees to curl up in to soak up some sun. he was cursed ad filled with hellfire - he was eterally infernal. but.. but being on earth colled him down. usually it was quite pleasent. but it also had this very strange effect that heating back up under the light of the loca star left him drozey and flouty and it was very lovely actually.

in a .. demonic way. of course.

but he was dozing int he tree, and awoke to Eve very carefully trying to pull him down from the branches, his body much to large to do practically, but bles sher, she was trying. when he grumbled about it, clinign to the branch tighter, she admonished him.

"No this tree, Serpant, Adam said we can't use this tree."

It was such a ttange startment, and he moved ot he ground beside her, looking up at the tree in confusion. yes, there wa something off about it when comparied tot he rest of the garden, but it was here wasn't it? "What do you mean?"

"Adam said we can't use this tree. He said God said to leave it be,a nd to never eat from it, or we will die."

Well if that wasn't the stupidest thing crawly had ever hear of. how could you die from eating somehting? granted, he wasn't comepltely sure what eating was, but it didn't sound like maining or smititng, or fighting, so how could one die? "Adam said that did he? That ypu'd die?"

She nodded, facew open and honest, and crawly scoffed. or at elasr as well as a snake could. it cam eut as more of a coughing hiss.

"You wont die," he assured her, "adam must of missundersood. God's liek that you know. Mysterious ways. never being straighforward about anyhting."

Eve didn't look so certain, but didn't argue either way.

"What's this eating thing, though. I've never heard of that before."